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. 2014 Jul 4;14:681. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-681

Table 1.

Summary statistics of suicide and socio-environmental variables at the LGA level

 
Mean
SD
Min
Percentiles
Max
        25 50 75  
Suicide rate (per 100,000)
14.00
9.350
0.00
10.37
12.97
16.41
168.28
SEIFA
981.94
64.664
613.31
959.41
987.03
1015.63
1162.11
ATSI (%)
5.91
13.222
0.00
0.76
1.72
4.19
90.22
Unemployment rate (%)
8.89
3.756
1.84
6.31
8.43
10.73
41.77
Rainfall (mm)
720.34
376.665
162.43
448.97
655.98
876.92
3464.77
Temperature (°C)
18.10
3.756
8.75
15.65
17.65
19.98
29.61
Humidity (%) 58.74 8.898 28.54 54.13 60.06 64.45 77.81

Note: SEIFA: Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas in each LGA, score 1000 for the national level. ATSI: Proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders among the total population in each LGA. Unemployment rate: Proportion of unemployed population among the total population in each LGA. Suicide rate, SEIFA, ATSI, unemployment rate and rainfall were presented as yearly average values. Temperature and humidity were presented as monthly average values.